Old Thin Clients - Which CPU is fine?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I am currently looking for Thin Clients on ebay to use as my main server instead of the RPi 4 with an external USB drive.

I found decent offers for:

Dell Optiplex 3020M with i5-4590T 4GB RAM 120GB SSD
Dell Wyse 5070 with Celeron J4105 or Pentium Silver J5005 both with 8GB RAM 64GB SSD

Given the current prices of new hardware my questions are:

Should I go for 8GB RAM?
Or are 4GB RAM fine and I should take double the storage?

Things I want to run on this server:

Karakeep
FreshRSS
Paperless-NGX or Papra
Immich
Booklore

Because I plan to mostly use podman I tried to check for virtualization and all three suppoert Intels VT-x technolgy, will that be fine for my use case?

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
A slower CPU sucks, but swapping sucks even more. Is the ram upgradeable? You can get 16gb ddr3 sticks of ram. Idk how much EOL/the ram pocalypse has affected their pricing though.

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- frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  For ddr3 in the US it’s not terrible. The new stuff for datacenters is all ddr5, and anyone who can’t get ddr5 is settling for ddr4, so ddr3 should be relatively cheap and available.
  
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ryelolium@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Try to get as much ram as you can within your budget.

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mrnobody@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Immich needs RAM so opt for more RAM if possible. I’m using Yunohost on an old box and have 8GB and Immich uses about 4-5 with all advanced features off.

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